About Elias

Elias Dummer is a Juno Award–winning songwriter based in Hamilton, Ontario. He fronted The City Harmonic and spent close to a decade living and working in Nashville, writing for his own records and for other artists in Christian music.

Songs he has written or recorded have passed 100 million streams, charted on Billboard and been played on K-LOVE and Air1. As a solo artist he released The Work and The Rest records between 2019 and 2022, and was named GMA Canada's Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2020.

Today he writes and performs as Frank Fiction, an alt-folk and Americana project. He co-founded Crown & Press, a gallery, café and live venue on Ottawa Street North, where he hosts Songs In The Round, a monthly writers' round modelled on Nashville's Bluebird Cafe.